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LIGHTING-UP TIME
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TIDE TABLE FOR MAY
Date High Water Lew Water
Sun
Sun
A.M.
P-M. A.M. PM.
rise
set
26
11.05
1130 524 5.00
5.18
7.13
21
11.50
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5.18
7.14
WEATHER FORECAST
Moderate south - southwesterly winds; lair.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER
Maximum temperature ™___i__... 75.8
Minimum temperature ____™____. 71.8
Rainfall ... , „ im
Sunshine. ____.. 12 hours. 54 minutes
VOL. 26—NO. 119
HAMILTON. BERMUDA. MONDAY, MAY 20, 1946
3D PER COPY—-40/- PER ANNUM
PERSIAN FORCES ATTACK AZERBAIJAN AS
MARTIAL LAW IS PROCLAIMED IN TABRIZ
1ESIST UNTIL THE LAST!
EREATT-TABRIZ RADIO
Clashes Reported at Three
Ptints on Azerbaijan Border
AZERBAIJAN ARMY ORDERED
TO FIGHT IF ATTACKED
TEHERAN, May 19 (Reuter).
—Tabriz radio announced
tonight that Persian armed
forces have attacked Azerbaijan.
The attack was made from the
southwest, the Kurdish regions
__round Lake Urmia, the radio
added.
it also announced what
amounted to a proclamation of
martial law in the Azerbaijan
capital: the formation of a military government, and anyone
seen on the streets after 11 p.m.
to be shot on sight.
The Azerbaijan National
Army, recruited by the Democrat "home rule" authorities of
the province, has already had
orders to fight if attacked,
according to earlier Tabriz
broadcasts.
The threat of conflict first loomed
over Persia when negotiations in
Teheran with M. Jafar Pishevari,
the Azerbaijan "Premier" about
the status of his province within the
Persian framework, broke down last
weekend.
In a broadcast last Tuesday, immediately on his return to Tabriz, M.
Pishevari referred to Persian troops
and gendarmerie concentrated along
the Azerbaijan borders, and reiterated the Azerbaijan determination
to resist any Government attempt
to enter the province.
TROOPS DISPATCHED
Iran Question on U.N.O.
Agenda for Wednesday
NEW YORK, May 19 (Reutw)
—Persia will be on the agenda
of the U.N.O. Security Council
which wiH meet here on Wednesday afternoon, it was announced tonight. The full
agenda will' be made public
tomorrow'.
The UN.O. Secretariat also
published the following telegram from Ghavam Es Sultaneh, the Persian Premier, to
M. Trygve Lie, the Secretary
General of the U.N.O. to the
Security Council's request for
a report on the withdrawal of
Soviet troops:
I have the honour to inform
'your excellency that the competent authorities of Imperial
Government will take necessary dispositions following the
recommendations suggested.
They will send you the information required as soon as
they are in a position to do
so."
It was also announced that
Doctor Jose Giral, the Prime
Minister of the Spanish RepubUcan Government in exile,
win attend a public meeting
of the Security Council subcommittee investigating the
Spanish question on Hay 23.
A telegram from the Syrian
Prime Minister. Bradullah Al
Ja'orl, reported that the evacuation of foreign troops
(British and French) from
Syria had "been accomplished
during the first two weeks
3f April"
According to Teheran reports, the
Persian Government has for weeks
been quietly dispatching troops to
the northwest where they have been
concentrated in six main centres, on
a line running along the entire
Azerbaijan border from Iraq to the
Caspian.
Teheran observers suggested last
week that the Persian Army could
at the most muster 10,000 men in
the northwest, being elsewhere tied
down by bandits and marauding
tribes.
The Azerbaijan authorities, it was
added, were likely to be able to
recruit a far larger force in the
province which is solidly behind
than. Azerbaijan is the most
densely populated area in Persia.
The mountainous terrain of
northwestern Persia would preclude
anything but guerilla tactics, these
observers said.
Tonight's broadcast from Tabriz
came on the eve of tbe "deadline"
fixed by the United Nations Security
Council for submission of the Persian Government's expected report
on the Soviet-Persian situation. The
Council is still awaiting official
Persian confirmation of the Red
Army's evacuation of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan "autonomism". dates
from last December when the Democrat movement, in an uprising
against little opposition, took power.
The recent negotiations over Azerbaijan demands for self-government
within Persia failed, because Ghavam Es Sultaneh, the Persian Premier, was unable to agree to M.
Pishevari's demands. These included
the right for Azerbaijan to appoint
the Governor General of the Province, as well as the commanders of
army and gendarmerie.'
Persian army units were recently
reported to be engaged in fighting
against autonomist Kurds south of
Lake Urmia, but the Teheran War
Ministry denied these reports.
NEW YORK, May 19 (_P).5_ The
British Broadcasting Corporation
quoted Tabriz radio that clashes
had taken place between troops of
Continued on Page 3
U.S. SUBMSlifORTANT
REPORT IN FRANCO PROBE
BEVIN BAH FROM PARIS
TO FACE NEW PROBLEMS
LONDON, May 18 (Reuter) — The
Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin
has returned from an exhausting
number of pressing problems which
will absorb a good deal of his available time before he is due back in
Paris for the next Big Pour meeting, four weeks from today. Apart
from the urgent need to work on a
policy for the next of these conferences ,Mr. Bevin is expected before
returning to Paris: 1. To initiate
consultations with Jews and Arabs
on the findings of the Palestine report. No statement of British intentions regarding the report is to be
made until its recommendations
have been discussed by the British
Government with leaders of both
parties.
2. To sustain in the House of Commons, probably next week, the case
for the Governments decision to
offer to make a complete withdrawal from Egypt. It is still undecided
whether Mr. Bevin will himself make
a trip to Cairo during the next four
weeks. This depends on the progress
of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty negotiations as well as on Mr. Bevin's
other commitments. 3. To attempt
to cany negotiations with the United States over the future of the
Continued on Pag* C
"VEILED" Oi. METHODS TO
CREATE AIR BASES
Soviet Commentators Level
Attack on United States
Congress Reaction
To British Plan
For India Awaited
By FRASER WIGHTON
NEW DELHI, May 19 (Reuter).—
The prospects of settling the Indian
constitutional tangle on the basis
of the British federal union plan, are
rated high by informed sources
here, but so far the country's organised parties have said Uttle to define
their attitude.
Everyone is awaiting official reaction to the proposals by the Congress Party, the best organised and
largest of the negotiating groups.
The Congress Party Working Committee is expected to finish its consideration of the proposals any time
now, and discussion among informed
quarters reveals' the following tendencies.
The Congress does not like the
suggested grouping of India's provinces within the Indian union, and
is likely to do Its utmost to render
that part of the British scheme
nugatory. In the process of bargaining, the Congress appears likely
to agree to limitation of the Union's
central authority to three subjects
—defence, foreign affairs and communications—as proposed. Yet, not
only the Congress but many others
appear to feel that in plans for the
immediate future, problems such as
food and economic control and
direction will loom large for the
whole subcontinent. The danger
inherent in inconsistent poUcies in
the country's different parts is
being brought home to most people.
It therefore seems very likely that
during the sittings of the proposed
Constituent Assembly, steps will be
taken to enlarge the competence of
the central authorities. At first
sight this would appear likely to
evoke strenuous opposition from the
Moslem League, with its separatist
aspirations, but indications are not
wanting that the League is in a
frame of mind where it is ready to
consider administrative problems
reaUstically.
If the Moslem League comes into
the scheme at aU, observers think
it is likely to take a generally
cooperative line. The difficulty of
course will be in the first step.
Mohammed AU Jinnah. the League's
President, has so frequently restated
an uncompromising adherence to
Pakistan, and the League convention has so fully endorsed his stand,
that they will have to put on one
side all amour propre if they are tc
agree to a scheme of all Indian
cooperation. Whether they will do
so Is largely up to the League's
leaders, but it is becoming clearer as
time passes, that they are increasingly alive to the dangers of a purely
negative campaign in the wilderness
So far as the Princes of the Indian
states are concerned, they seem
Contiaued on Page 6
NATIONWIDE RAIL STRIKE
POSTPONED FOR 5 DAYS
Truman Announces News Few
Minutes Before Deadline
"GEORGE WASHINGT ON" ON
NEW YORK-BERMUDA RUN?
WORKERS' SPOKESMEN FLY
TO WASHINGTON FOR TALKS
WASHINGTON, May 19 (^.—President Truman, at a special news conference a few minutes before the
strike deadline, announced the rafl-
road strike had been postponed for
five days.
The President said the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Engineers agreed to his request for a
delay on his assurance that he was
confident that further progress
could be made toward a wage agreement if they negotiated again with
the managements.
President Truman said Mr. Whitney, the head trainmen, and Mr.
Alvanley Johnson, the chief of the
The possibility that the Alcoa
steamer "George Washington,"
which has been regularly operating
on the New York-Bermuda-Puerto
Rick route, may go on a direct New
York-Bermuda run was hinted at
by crew members ot the vessel during its regular visit to St. George's
yesterday.
The "George Washington" is scheduled to make her last caU at St.
George's — on the return trip from
Puerto Rico to New York next Sunday.
Members of the crew consulted
yesterday by a representative of
The Royal Gaaette were of the opinion that the vessel would be refitted
— in a more luxurious manner —
and put on a regular New Yoifc-St.
George's run. However, they could
not substantiate their belief, and ft
remained a rumour.
The ship arrived in St. George's
from New York at 19 o'clock yesterday morning on her last journey
to Puerto Bico. There were 208 in
transit passengers aboard, and 68
passengers for Bermuda.
Captain Thomas H. Park, master
of the vessel, Is making this last trip
with her, though he had some weeks
ago expressed the beUef that he
would not do so.
The "George Washington" left for
Puerto Rico at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, with 131 tons of cargo.
Mr. Leon D. Fox, Mayor of St.
George's, is at present in the US.
in connection with the Alcoa passenger service.
Local agents for the steamer are
Messrs. W. E. Meyer & Co., Ltd, of
which Mr. Fox is a principal.
Clive Vallis Jr., Returns
After Sister's Funeral
Poland Bound Vessel Lands
Sick Chief Engineer .
Mr. CUve VaUis, Jr., brother of
the late LA.W. Daisy Vallis. who was
killed recently in a motor car accident at Burlington, Vermont, whilst
, , , , on leave from the R.CAF., returned
*gi?aS,Sl flLheI!AT0™ to Bermuda yesterday afternoon.
for a resumption of negotiations.
He telephoned the Brotherhood
chiefs at Cleveland and they called
him back accepting his proposal to
postpone the strike.
NEWSMEN'S SCRAMBLE
Only a handful of reporters were
at the White House when Mr. Aben
Mr. Vallis went to America where
he attended the funeral of LA.W.
Vallis at Roslyn, Long Island, on
Thursday afternoon. His mother
and his sister, Mrs. Howard Outer-
bridge, were also present at the
funeral.
The body of LAW. ValUs was sent
En route from Seattle, Washington, to Gdynia, Poland, the American ship "Oakley Wood" arrived off
St. George's yesterday to land her
sick Chief Engineer and an ailing
oiler. The vessel had traveUed down
the American Pacific Coast from
Seattle, through the Panama Canal,
and was 600 miles off Bermuda
when the Chief Engineer, 56-year-old
Edwin S. Nordstrom, suffered a
stroke. He was sent to the Fort Bell
Hospital yesterday.
A New Yorker of Swedish ancestry,
Ayers" tteasstetsint ores! secret^ I*° ^^ Island by **&*». accom- Nordstrom has been sailing the seas
Ayers, xne assistant press secretary, Escort Officer of thP for ^ years- The "Oakley Wood" wiU
rushed to the press room shouting ^ " a 17 f™ . %J,_T , v . remain here until a rennrt nn Tiiq
the President would h«w » „* R-CAJ. .{Women's Division). AU of rem?rl nere umu a T^P°n W1 ***>
tne president would hold a news famiiy*s endeavours to i,.™ thp condition is received. If he should
conference immediately. iVhen the r1* Iamuys endeavours to ham the rec,ime immediateiv
newsmen scrambled into the Presi- body sent to Bermuda for burial P?1 * +, I i ^ immediately
aew__ueu suummea into me i-resi unavailing Tho nnit_ _# <•>,. his duties aboard, the vessel will
dent's office, President Truman was wef* "navaUln8- The P«Bcy of the reoiaoement Chief Engineer
seated at his desk with "Mr Tohn R-CAJ". would not permit it. awalt a replacement omer itngineer
seated at nis oesK witn MX. John *~ from America and wffl then resume
Steelman, the special labour consult- A larSe number of friends from her journ€y t0 p0iand
ant and the Secretary of Labour. Mr. -fng Mand and New York City BazyU Kowalewski, an oUer aboard
SchweUenbach. He then began to attended the last rites at Trinity the ship was g^ ^^ to the Fort
read a brief announcement. He satd Church, Roslyn, on Tliursday after- Bell Hospital yesterday
the engineers and trainmen had noon. **■ magnificent array of floral j -j^e "Oaklev Wood" is located at
agreed to move the strike date from tributes were sent to the funeral.
1600 hours today ES.T. to 1600 hours | A memorial service was held at St.
John's Church, Pembroke, Bermuda,
at 3 o'clock on Thursday, coinciding
in time with the funeral service at
AGRICULTURE BOARD TO
PROTECT BEES' HEALTH
Bye-laws Will Be Prepared,
Local Beekeepers Are Told
INTERESTING TOUR SUNDAY
AT PRESIDENTS HOME
Murray's Anchorage.
o—
on May 23 in response to his request.
Negotiations broke off on Thursday morning when the carrier representatives stood fast on the Emergency Board recommendation for a
wage increase of 16 cents an hour, or
$1.28 a day for the 250,000 members
of the two brotherhoods.
The carriers rejected a modified
union proposal for an increase of
18 per cent, with a minimum raise of
$1.44 a day as compared with the
workers' original demand for 25 per
cent, wtth a minimum of $2.50 a day.
After President Truman ordered
the railroads to be taken over by
the Government yesterday, repre-
Long Island.
2 Ships Building in ILL
For Bermuda and WJ. Run
CAPTAIN BELL SERVED
IN ENGLAND & AFRICA
Transport Cu'? Commander
Later Becomes Paymaster
After weU over six years' service
n the British Army in England and
sentatives of the carriers said they|West Africa Captain M. C. BeU. son
stood ready at any time to resume | of Or. and Mrs. L. Dunbar BeU, of
"Greenmount," Southampton, has
Continued on Page 6
TORNADOES IN TEXAS
returned to Bermuda with a charming EngUsh bride. Captain and Mrs.
I BeU wiU remain in the Colony and
, are temporarily staying with his
DENTON, Tents, May 19 (ff).—Two parents,
tornadoes in north Texas last night In England during 1939, Captain
killed at least two, injured five and BeU Joined the Territorial Army,
damaged many buildings.
INTERIOR OF JAVA GRIPPED
BY SWEEPING WAR FEVER
NEW YORK, May 18 (IP) — The
United States has submitted to the
United Nations, a voluminous report
which informed sources said con-
tamed information of great importance to the sub-committee investigating Franco Spain.
Hie contents of the report are
not disclosed, but United States
sources said the report consisted of
a 62-page general document and fifteen attachments.
Much of the material has been previously pubUshed, but tiie informant said tt contained more new
material on the Franco regime than
the sub-committee has received up
to now from aU other sources.
LONDON, May 19 (Reuter).—Soviet
commentators this weekend extended
to the United States criticisms untU
recently largely reserved for Britisli
foreign policy.
An attack in yesterday's "New
Times" oh United states negoiations
for bases, and unwiUingness to share
the atom bomb secret with other
peace-loving nations, was today followed by an article in .the Red Army
paper "Red Star," in which Lieutenant Colonel Victor Cheprakov contended that America was attempting;
to create a wideflung chain of bases
around the world..
Speaking of United States plans
for "setting up a network of advance
airbases aimed at placing vital centres of other countries within reach
of American aviation," Colonel Cheprakov added: -Tiie United States
press, acting as a herald of a new
post-war armaments race, demands
that the United States bufld a network of airbases girdling the world.
''It should .be emphasised that one
of the veiled methods of creating outpost air bases is the building,
by American transport companies, of
airports and landing grounds in numerous countries."
Britain, too, was "seeking not only
to preserve, but expand her network
of bases, particularly in the Near and
Middle East," Colonel Cheprakov
stated.
Professor Fyodor Galperin, a prominent Soviet scientist, urged that \*\%*)
a-ipll
By NOEL BUCKLEY
BATAVIA, May 18 (Reuter). — War
fever is sweeping the Interior of
Java. With thoroughness and determination, the island's population of
40,000,000 is being organised for hostilities. ,
On a tour of central Java I saw
companies of youths in a number of
villages enthusiastically undergoing
miUtary training with assorted types
of small arms and bamboo spears,
and there was a noticeable absence
of younger men at work on fields.
Through the streets. . of Java's
ancient cultural capital, Soerakarta,
miUtary formations of Indonesians,
battaUon strong at a time, are
marching and singing. They pass
walls covered with cleverly designed
posters urging aU Indonesians to
help the repubUc as "soldiers, farmers, and nurses."
Other posters give warning against
Dutch civil service "spies." In spite
of this martial fervour, the presence
of a uniformed British correspondent attracted only friendly attention.
The Indonesians' driUing methods
Controversy Rages
in U.S. Over Army
Navy Merger Bill
WASHINGTON. May 19 (/P).-The
Chairman of the Senate and House
Navy Committees answered the
Army-Navy merger argument with
a statement that "Congress will not
approve" the plan for a single department. In a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. James Forrestal,, Senator Walsh (Democrat, Massachusetts and Representative Vinson (Democrat, Georgia) advised Mr
Forrestal against entering any compromise with the Secretary of War,
Mr. Patterson, in conflict with their
views: President Truman recently
directed his War and Navy Cabinet
members to settle their differences
over the unification of the armed
forces. This action came after the
Senate MiUtary Committee recommended the passage of a biU that
would abolish th$ present War and
Navy Departments, and set up a
44th Divisional R.A.S.C. on April 29
of that year.. He enlisted at South
Croydon and was embodied for active service on September 1, the day
that Hitler's armed hordes swept
into Poland.
On April 13. 1940. he was posted
to an Officer Cadet Training Unit.
for rigorous training. In June he
was employed on the receiving end
I during the Allied evacuation of Dunkirk, and was commissioned as a
Second Lieutenant in the Royal
Army Service Corps on the 22nd of
that month. He was placed in the
I transport section of the Corps and
I posted for duty with the Motor
| Coach Company of the 15th Scot-
tish Division, where he was occupied
I with tactical exercises and general
I training in troop conveyance.
In November. 1940. he was posted
I to Freetown. Sierra Leone, where he
Specially designed for a service
from England to Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica and other ports, as
circumstances warrant, two motor
cargo vessels are being built in Scotland for the Royal MaU Lines, Limited, according to The Crown Colonist Magazine.
One of the vessels is being built
on the Clyde by Iithgows Ltd.. and
the other on the Northeast Coast of
Scotland. The ships will have a
speed of 12} knots, and will cater for
general West Indian unrefrigerated
cargo.
MAaSTRATEQRRIES OUT
THREAT m "STOP" SIGNS
17 Are Fmed!/-for Hik
Offence Saturday in Court
The Wor. H. Martin Godet put his
warning to cyclists into effect on
Saturday morning in HamUton
PoUce Court when he fined 17 people 5/- each for riding through
"stop" signs in the municipal area.
A total of 19 persons were charged
with this offence, but two cases were
dismissed after the hearing of the
evidence.
In the two dismissed cases Mesdames Louise Spence and Helen
The Board of Agriculture has
approved a suggestion by the Bermuda Beekeepers' Association that
bees entering the Colony should be
accompanied by a certificate stating that they are free from disease
Correspondence to this effect was
read at a gathering of the Association yesterday afternoon when Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Perinchief were
hosts to the members for the May
meeting.
FoUowing the brief business session, Mr. Perinchief conducted a
tour of his bee colony with a demonstration of his many home-made
items of equipment for use around
his bee-hives and home. He is president of the Association.
HOME-MADE EQUIPMENT
in his basement Mr. Perinchief displayed an elaborate and neat array
of equipment including a Jig-saw
and many tools where he made aU
his own hives, supers, delicate
frames for the interior of the hives
and other material for use in his
own home. His bee smoker is a
combination of a metal flower vase,
a beer can top and small bellows
aU made by himself.
He made his own honey extractor
from a combination of the mechanism of an ice-cream freezer, a hot
water tank and an electric motor.
He has a built-in window in his hives
so that he may look in at odd times
without disturbing the bees. He
also has a novel arrangement on
the hive for the accommodation of
his bees which allows them to secure
a supply of drinking water without
leaving the hive, thus saving their
valuable time, as well as wear and
tear on their wings.
His inventive bent extends to
household conveniences and labour
saving devices. One of many instances of this is his lawn mower.
Over the blades he has attached an
I electric motor and with reels of
electric wire cable, he is able to cut
his grass with a minimum of effort
in giving guidance to the mower.
One of his guests suggested that
he instaU radio control and eliminate all effort.
Among the members present at
the meeting were: Charles WiUiams.
Charles Jones, Mrs. Harry Richardson, A. Lonsdale, Henry Masters,
Aubrey Manuel, Major J. S. Bartrum'
J. B. Ferguson, and four new members, Capt. and Mrs. Ross Winter,
Herman Walker and Herbert Outer-
bridge.
INSPECT BEE COLONY
stopped, but did not dismount, and
the Magistrate said that the law pertaining to "stop" signs did not require a complete dismounting on
toe* part in building up the West I the part of the cyclists.
African Forces. In December, 1941 Constable M. M. Marsh told the
he was promoted Lieutenant, and court that Mrs. Spence definitely
in 1912 he was sent north to Gambia
SeUey pleaded not guUty to the of
fence. Both maintained that they I comb in readiness for the deposit
Mr. Charles WiUiams took charge
of the meeting for the inspection of
Mr. Perinchief's bee colony. The
hive he selected to open consisted
of a brooder chamber and two
supers. Mr. WiUiams worked over the
hive without face net or gloves,
wearing an open-necked shirt and
roUed sleeves. He slowly and methodically took the hive'apart, super
by super, removed honey and brood
bearing frames, and explained the
various workings of the hive. The
bees continued their work, apparently paying Uttle attention to him.
Mr. WUUams in his 'demonstration
explained the Ufe of a bee. Immediately upon being hatched, he said,
the first joJ> tot the new bee is to
clean up his Uttle ceH in readiness
for more eggs to be laid by the
queen bee. For the foUowing 10
days or two weeks, the young bees
must take care of the queen bee.
The next job wbich occupies the
junior members of the hive is the
forming and buUding up of the
ing of honey by the workers. The
bees are then ready to be sent out
into the fields to gather honey.
Their Ufe at this job endures for
about six weeks, Mr. Williams said.
It is not that their constitution is
unable to stand more but their
out and they drop
Later he returned to duty with the
General Transport Company of the
West African Army Service Corps, in I gr0und, the constable averred
did not stop at the sign on the cor- ™«s S*™ out and tney drop i
ner of Front and Court Streets-she | eartk on one of **»"[ >
did not even place her foot on the
sea and air branches. hjs mechanised transport duties
Mr. Forrestal and aU the other Delng completed, Captain BeU was
Navy leaders have continued to at- transferred from %%»*%\A..S.C. to the
reflect Japanese influence, but I saw single new department with land, reasons
no Japanese instructoas. There is -
stfll no signs of a resumption of
constitutional talks witjl the Dutch
but Indonesian leaders remain
supremely confident,that .their minimum demands wfll be achieved.
This confidence is apparently
based on a belief In their own
strength rather than hope that the
next Dutch offer wiU satisfy their aspirations. Many Indonesians beUeve
that the Dutch, with about 20,000
troops in Java and a smaller number in Sumatra, cannot resist their
demand for Independence of the two
islands without the aid oi British
forces—and these an being steadily
evacuated.
• Mi
Sierra Leone. Whilst there -Lieutenant BeU served as officer fn charge
of motor workshops, 144 Platoon.
He later served as Commander of
the General Transport Company of
the WAA S.C. just outside of Lagos,
in Nigeria- When the West African
Force was fully trained and organiz- ^aM,"^ |
ed it was despatched to Burma, but ^ ww ^
Captain Bell *— as he was then —
was sent to England for medical
I unable to return to their hives.
BUSINESS SESSION
tack the plan during the recent
hearings of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee. Congressional
Navy leaders told Mr. Forrestal: "We
beUeve the bill (merger) accentuates
the differences between our services.
Its enactment would sot heal the
breach which now exists. Instead,
it would widen the breach since
Naval officers are firmly convinced
as a result of tbeir recent war experiences, that Naval aviation and
amphibious operations played a
great part in winning the war.
They are also convinced that ln the
CMliaaedl ra Page U
Royal Army Pay Corps at his own
request. During most of 1945, and
up until his demobilisation, he was
employed as a paymaster in the
Bournemouth Pay Office, where he
handled the financial side of demobilization.
Whilst in Bournemuoth, he married Miss Joan Beatrice Sully, who
has accompanied him to Bermuda.
Both Captain and Mrs. BeU have experienced the bombings of Bournemouth and London, and they have
vivid memories of the Nazi flying
bomb.
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The accused gave evidence under
oath and said that she always
obeyed the signs, and on this particular occasion she had seen "the
policeman and "I stressed my stopping even more than usual." "Mrs.
Spence told the court that the con-
asked her name, which
and then he inquired
after her age, but "I told him that,
that had no bearing on the case,"
to.which the Magistrate remarked:
"Quite rightly."
Inspector J. M. Brown, prosecuting
for the police, said that if the Magistrate beUeved the constable's evidence he had no alternative other
than convicting the accused, but
Mr. Godet said there was some doubt
and he was going to give the accused
the benefit of that doubt.
In the second dismissed case, the
accused, Mrs. SeUey, offered to show
the court the manner in which she
brought her bike to a halt without
touching the ground, but Mr. Godet
said that that would not be necessary. Mrs. SeUey claimed that she
remained motionless on her cycle for
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Mr. Ferguson during the business
session of the meeting read a reply
to a letter he had written the Department of Agriculture last year
with regard to importation of bees.
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IN UX FOR VICTORY PARADE
LONDON, May 19 (JP).—The Queen
Mary arrived here today with contingents of service personnel from
Mexico and Bermuda to take part
in London's victory celebration on
June 8.
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PERSIAN FORCES ATTACK AZERBAIJAN AS
MARTIAL LAW IS PROCLAIMED IN TABRIZ
1ESIST UNTIL THE LAST!
EREATT-TABRIZ RADIO
Clashes Reported at Three
Ptints on Azerbaijan Border
AZERBAIJAN ARMY ORDERED
TO FIGHT IF ATTACKED
TEHERAN, May 19 (Reuter).
—Tabriz radio announced
tonight that Persian armed
forces have attacked Azerbaijan.
The attack was made from the
southwest, the Kurdish regions
__round Lake Urmia, the radio
added.
it also announced what
amounted to a proclamation of
martial law in the Azerbaijan
capital: the formation of a military government, and anyone
seen on the streets after 11 p.m.
to be shot on sight.
The Azerbaijan National
Army, recruited by the Democrat "home rule" authorities of
the province, has already had
orders to fight if attacked,
according to earlier Tabriz
broadcasts.
The threat of conflict first loomed
over Persia when negotiations in
Teheran with M. Jafar Pishevari,
the Azerbaijan "Premier" about
the status of his province within the
Persian framework, broke down last
weekend.
In a broadcast last Tuesday, immediately on his return to Tabriz, M.
Pishevari referred to Persian troops
and gendarmerie concentrated along
the Azerbaijan borders, and reiterated the Azerbaijan determination
to resist any Government attempt
to enter the province.
TROOPS DISPATCHED
Iran Question on U.N.O.
Agenda for Wednesday
NEW YORK, May 19 (Reutw)
—Persia will be on the agenda
of the U.N.O. Security Council
which wiH meet here on Wednesday afternoon, it was announced tonight. The full
agenda will' be made public
tomorrow'.
The UN.O. Secretariat also
published the following telegram from Ghavam Es Sultaneh, the Persian Premier, to
M. Trygve Lie, the Secretary
General of the U.N.O. to the
Security Council's request for
a report on the withdrawal of
Soviet troops:
I have the honour to inform
'your excellency that the competent authorities of Imperial
Government will take necessary dispositions following the
recommendations suggested.
They will send you the information required as soon as
they are in a position to do
so."
It was also announced that
Doctor Jose Giral, the Prime
Minister of the Spanish RepubUcan Government in exile,
win attend a public meeting
of the Security Council subcommittee investigating the
Spanish question on Hay 23.
A telegram from the Syrian
Prime Minister. Bradullah Al
Ja'orl, reported that the evacuation of foreign troops
(British and French) from
Syria had "been accomplished
during the first two weeks
3f April"
According to Teheran reports, the
Persian Government has for weeks
been quietly dispatching troops to
the northwest where they have been
concentrated in six main centres, on
a line running along the entire
Azerbaijan border from Iraq to the
Caspian.
Teheran observers suggested last
week that the Persian Army could
at the most muster 10,000 men in
the northwest, being elsewhere tied
down by bandits and marauding
tribes.
The Azerbaijan authorities, it was
added, were likely to be able to
recruit a far larger force in the
province which is solidly behind
than. Azerbaijan is the most
densely populated area in Persia.
The mountainous terrain of
northwestern Persia would preclude
anything but guerilla tactics, these
observers said.
Tonight's broadcast from Tabriz
came on the eve of tbe "deadline"
fixed by the United Nations Security
Council for submission of the Persian Government's expected report
on the Soviet-Persian situation. The
Council is still awaiting official
Persian confirmation of the Red
Army's evacuation of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan "autonomism". dates
from last December when the Democrat movement, in an uprising
against little opposition, took power.
The recent negotiations over Azerbaijan demands for self-government
within Persia failed, because Ghavam Es Sultaneh, the Persian Premier, was unable to agree to M.
Pishevari's demands. These included
the right for Azerbaijan to appoint
the Governor General of the Province, as well as the commanders of
army and gendarmerie.'
Persian army units were recently
reported to be engaged in fighting
against autonomist Kurds south of
Lake Urmia, but the Teheran War
Ministry denied these reports.
NEW YORK, May 19 (_P).5_ The
British Broadcasting Corporation
quoted Tabriz radio that clashes
had taken place between troops of
Continued on Page 3
U.S. SUBMSlifORTANT
REPORT IN FRANCO PROBE
BEVIN BAH FROM PARIS
TO FACE NEW PROBLEMS
LONDON, May 18 (Reuter) — The
Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin
has returned from an exhausting
number of pressing problems which
will absorb a good deal of his available time before he is due back in
Paris for the next Big Pour meeting, four weeks from today. Apart
from the urgent need to work on a
policy for the next of these conferences ,Mr. Bevin is expected before
returning to Paris: 1. To initiate
consultations with Jews and Arabs
on the findings of the Palestine report. No statement of British intentions regarding the report is to be
made until its recommendations
have been discussed by the British
Government with leaders of both
parties.
2. To sustain in the House of Commons, probably next week, the case
for the Governments decision to
offer to make a complete withdrawal from Egypt. It is still undecided
whether Mr. Bevin will himself make
a trip to Cairo during the next four
weeks. This depends on the progress
of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty negotiations as well as on Mr. Bevin's
other commitments. 3. To attempt
to cany negotiations with the United States over the future of the
Continued on Pag* C
"VEILED" Oi. METHODS TO
CREATE AIR BASES
Soviet Commentators Level
Attack on United States
Congress Reaction
To British Plan
For India Awaited
By FRASER WIGHTON
NEW DELHI, May 19 (Reuter).—
The prospects of settling the Indian
constitutional tangle on the basis
of the British federal union plan, are
rated high by informed sources
here, but so far the country's organised parties have said Uttle to define
their attitude.
Everyone is awaiting official reaction to the proposals by the Congress Party, the best organised and
largest of the negotiating groups.
The Congress Party Working Committee is expected to finish its consideration of the proposals any time
now, and discussion among informed
quarters reveals' the following tendencies.
The Congress does not like the
suggested grouping of India's provinces within the Indian union, and
is likely to do Its utmost to render
that part of the British scheme
nugatory. In the process of bargaining, the Congress appears likely
to agree to limitation of the Union's
central authority to three subjects
—defence, foreign affairs and communications—as proposed. Yet, not
only the Congress but many others
appear to feel that in plans for the
immediate future, problems such as
food and economic control and
direction will loom large for the
whole subcontinent. The danger
inherent in inconsistent poUcies in
the country's different parts is
being brought home to most people.
It therefore seems very likely that
during the sittings of the proposed
Constituent Assembly, steps will be
taken to enlarge the competence of
the central authorities. At first
sight this would appear likely to
evoke strenuous opposition from the
Moslem League, with its separatist
aspirations, but indications are not
wanting that the League is in a
frame of mind where it is ready to
consider administrative problems
reaUstically.
If the Moslem League comes into
the scheme at aU, observers think
it is likely to take a generally
cooperative line. The difficulty of
course will be in the first step.
Mohammed AU Jinnah. the League's
President, has so frequently restated
an uncompromising adherence to
Pakistan, and the League convention has so fully endorsed his stand,
that they will have to put on one
side all amour propre if they are tc
agree to a scheme of all Indian
cooperation. Whether they will do
so Is largely up to the League's
leaders, but it is becoming clearer as
time passes, that they are increasingly alive to the dangers of a purely
negative campaign in the wilderness
So far as the Princes of the Indian
states are concerned, they seem
Contiaued on Page 6
NATIONWIDE RAIL STRIKE
POSTPONED FOR 5 DAYS
Truman Announces News Few
Minutes Before Deadline
"GEORGE WASHINGT ON" ON
NEW YORK-BERMUDA RUN?
WORKERS' SPOKESMEN FLY
TO WASHINGTON FOR TALKS
WASHINGTON, May 19 (^.—President Truman, at a special news conference a few minutes before the
strike deadline, announced the rafl-
road strike had been postponed for
five days.
The President said the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Engineers agreed to his request for a
delay on his assurance that he was
confident that further progress
could be made toward a wage agreement if they negotiated again with
the managements.
President Truman said Mr. Whitney, the head trainmen, and Mr.
Alvanley Johnson, the chief of the
The possibility that the Alcoa
steamer "George Washington,"
which has been regularly operating
on the New York-Bermuda-Puerto
Rick route, may go on a direct New
York-Bermuda run was hinted at
by crew members ot the vessel during its regular visit to St. George's
yesterday.
The "George Washington" is scheduled to make her last caU at St.
George's — on the return trip from
Puerto Rico to New York next Sunday.
Members of the crew consulted
yesterday by a representative of
The Royal Gaaette were of the opinion that the vessel would be refitted
— in a more luxurious manner —
and put on a regular New Yoifc-St.
George's run. However, they could
not substantiate their belief, and ft
remained a rumour.
The ship arrived in St. George's
from New York at 19 o'clock yesterday morning on her last journey
to Puerto Bico. There were 208 in
transit passengers aboard, and 68
passengers for Bermuda.
Captain Thomas H. Park, master
of the vessel, Is making this last trip
with her, though he had some weeks
ago expressed the beUef that he
would not do so.
The "George Washington" left for
Puerto Rico at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, with 131 tons of cargo.
Mr. Leon D. Fox, Mayor of St.
George's, is at present in the US.
in connection with the Alcoa passenger service.
Local agents for the steamer are
Messrs. W. E. Meyer & Co., Ltd, of
which Mr. Fox is a principal.
Clive Vallis Jr., Returns
After Sister's Funeral
Poland Bound Vessel Lands
Sick Chief Engineer .
Mr. CUve VaUis, Jr., brother of
the late LA.W. Daisy Vallis. who was
killed recently in a motor car accident at Burlington, Vermont, whilst
, , , , on leave from the R.CAF., returned
*gi?aS,Sl flLheI!AT0™ to Bermuda yesterday afternoon.
for a resumption of negotiations.
He telephoned the Brotherhood
chiefs at Cleveland and they called
him back accepting his proposal to
postpone the strike.
NEWSMEN'S SCRAMBLE
Only a handful of reporters were
at the White House when Mr. Aben
Mr. Vallis went to America where
he attended the funeral of LA.W.
Vallis at Roslyn, Long Island, on
Thursday afternoon. His mother
and his sister, Mrs. Howard Outer-
bridge, were also present at the
funeral.
The body of LAW. ValUs was sent
En route from Seattle, Washington, to Gdynia, Poland, the American ship "Oakley Wood" arrived off
St. George's yesterday to land her
sick Chief Engineer and an ailing
oiler. The vessel had traveUed down
the American Pacific Coast from
Seattle, through the Panama Canal,
and was 600 miles off Bermuda
when the Chief Engineer, 56-year-old
Edwin S. Nordstrom, suffered a
stroke. He was sent to the Fort Bell
Hospital yesterday.
A New Yorker of Swedish ancestry,
Ayers" tteasstetsint ores! secret^ I*° ^^ Island by **&*». accom- Nordstrom has been sailing the seas
Ayers, xne assistant press secretary, Escort Officer of thP for ^ years- The "Oakley Wood" wiU
rushed to the press room shouting ^ " a 17 f™ . %J,_T , v . remain here until a rennrt nn Tiiq
the President would h«w » „* R-CAJ. .{Women's Division). AU of rem?rl nere umu a T^P°n W1 ***>
tne president would hold a news famiiy*s endeavours to i,.™ thp condition is received. If he should
conference immediately. iVhen the r1* Iamuys endeavours to ham the rec,ime immediateiv
newsmen scrambled into the Presi- body sent to Bermuda for burial P?1 * +, I i ^ immediately
aew__ueu suummea into me i-resi unavailing Tho nnit_ _# ,. his duties aboard, the vessel will
dent's office, President Truman was wef* "navaUln8- The P«Bcy of the reoiaoement Chief Engineer
seated at his desk with "Mr Tohn R-CAJ". would not permit it. awalt a replacement omer itngineer
seated at nis oesK witn MX. John *~ from America and wffl then resume
Steelman, the special labour consult- A larSe number of friends from her journ€y t0 p0iand
ant and the Secretary of Labour. Mr. -fng Mand and New York City BazyU Kowalewski, an oUer aboard
SchweUenbach. He then began to attended the last rites at Trinity the ship was g^ ^^ to the Fort
read a brief announcement. He satd Church, Roslyn, on Tliursday after- Bell Hospital yesterday
the engineers and trainmen had noon. **■ magnificent array of floral j -j^e "Oaklev Wood" is located at
agreed to move the strike date from tributes were sent to the funeral.
1600 hours today ES.T. to 1600 hours | A memorial service was held at St.
John's Church, Pembroke, Bermuda,
at 3 o'clock on Thursday, coinciding
in time with the funeral service at
AGRICULTURE BOARD TO
PROTECT BEES' HEALTH
Bye-laws Will Be Prepared,
Local Beekeepers Are Told
INTERESTING TOUR SUNDAY
AT PRESIDENTS HOME
Murray's Anchorage.
o—
on May 23 in response to his request.
Negotiations broke off on Thursday morning when the carrier representatives stood fast on the Emergency Board recommendation for a
wage increase of 16 cents an hour, or
$1.28 a day for the 250,000 members
of the two brotherhoods.
The carriers rejected a modified
union proposal for an increase of
18 per cent, with a minimum raise of
$1.44 a day as compared with the
workers' original demand for 25 per
cent, wtth a minimum of $2.50 a day.
After President Truman ordered
the railroads to be taken over by
the Government yesterday, repre-
Long Island.
2 Ships Building in ILL
For Bermuda and WJ. Run
CAPTAIN BELL SERVED
IN ENGLAND & AFRICA
Transport Cu'? Commander
Later Becomes Paymaster
After weU over six years' service
n the British Army in England and
sentatives of the carriers said they|West Africa Captain M. C. BeU. son
stood ready at any time to resume | of Or. and Mrs. L. Dunbar BeU, of
"Greenmount," Southampton, has
Continued on Page 6
TORNADOES IN TEXAS
returned to Bermuda with a charming EngUsh bride. Captain and Mrs.
I BeU wiU remain in the Colony and
, are temporarily staying with his
DENTON, Tents, May 19 (ff).—Two parents,
tornadoes in north Texas last night In England during 1939, Captain
killed at least two, injured five and BeU Joined the Territorial Army,
damaged many buildings.
INTERIOR OF JAVA GRIPPED
BY SWEEPING WAR FEVER
NEW YORK, May 18 (IP) — The
United States has submitted to the
United Nations, a voluminous report
which informed sources said con-
tamed information of great importance to the sub-committee investigating Franco Spain.
Hie contents of the report are
not disclosed, but United States
sources said the report consisted of
a 62-page general document and fifteen attachments.
Much of the material has been previously pubUshed, but tiie informant said tt contained more new
material on the Franco regime than
the sub-committee has received up
to now from aU other sources.
LONDON, May 19 (Reuter).—Soviet
commentators this weekend extended
to the United States criticisms untU
recently largely reserved for Britisli
foreign policy.
An attack in yesterday's "New
Times" oh United states negoiations
for bases, and unwiUingness to share
the atom bomb secret with other
peace-loving nations, was today followed by an article in .the Red Army
paper "Red Star," in which Lieutenant Colonel Victor Cheprakov contended that America was attempting;
to create a wideflung chain of bases
around the world..
Speaking of United States plans
for "setting up a network of advance
airbases aimed at placing vital centres of other countries within reach
of American aviation," Colonel Cheprakov added: -Tiie United States
press, acting as a herald of a new
post-war armaments race, demands
that the United States bufld a network of airbases girdling the world.
''It should .be emphasised that one
of the veiled methods of creating outpost air bases is the building,
by American transport companies, of
airports and landing grounds in numerous countries."
Britain, too, was "seeking not only
to preserve, but expand her network
of bases, particularly in the Near and
Middle East," Colonel Cheprakov
stated.
Professor Fyodor Galperin, a prominent Soviet scientist, urged that \*\%*)
a-ipll
By NOEL BUCKLEY
BATAVIA, May 18 (Reuter). — War
fever is sweeping the Interior of
Java. With thoroughness and determination, the island's population of
40,000,000 is being organised for hostilities. ,
On a tour of central Java I saw
companies of youths in a number of
villages enthusiastically undergoing
miUtary training with assorted types
of small arms and bamboo spears,
and there was a noticeable absence
of younger men at work on fields.
Through the streets. . of Java's
ancient cultural capital, Soerakarta,
miUtary formations of Indonesians,
battaUon strong at a time, are
marching and singing. They pass
walls covered with cleverly designed
posters urging aU Indonesians to
help the repubUc as "soldiers, farmers, and nurses."
Other posters give warning against
Dutch civil service "spies." In spite
of this martial fervour, the presence
of a uniformed British correspondent attracted only friendly attention.
The Indonesians' driUing methods
Controversy Rages
in U.S. Over Army
Navy Merger Bill
WASHINGTON. May 19 (/P).-The
Chairman of the Senate and House
Navy Committees answered the
Army-Navy merger argument with
a statement that "Congress will not
approve" the plan for a single department. In a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. James Forrestal,, Senator Walsh (Democrat, Massachusetts and Representative Vinson (Democrat, Georgia) advised Mr
Forrestal against entering any compromise with the Secretary of War,
Mr. Patterson, in conflict with their
views: President Truman recently
directed his War and Navy Cabinet
members to settle their differences
over the unification of the armed
forces. This action came after the
Senate MiUtary Committee recommended the passage of a biU that
would abolish th$ present War and
Navy Departments, and set up a
44th Divisional R.A.S.C. on April 29
of that year.. He enlisted at South
Croydon and was embodied for active service on September 1, the day
that Hitler's armed hordes swept
into Poland.
On April 13. 1940. he was posted
to an Officer Cadet Training Unit.
for rigorous training. In June he
was employed on the receiving end
I during the Allied evacuation of Dunkirk, and was commissioned as a
Second Lieutenant in the Royal
Army Service Corps on the 22nd of
that month. He was placed in the
I transport section of the Corps and
I posted for duty with the Motor
| Coach Company of the 15th Scot-
tish Division, where he was occupied
I with tactical exercises and general
I training in troop conveyance.
In November. 1940. he was posted
I to Freetown. Sierra Leone, where he
Specially designed for a service
from England to Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica and other ports, as
circumstances warrant, two motor
cargo vessels are being built in Scotland for the Royal MaU Lines, Limited, according to The Crown Colonist Magazine.
One of the vessels is being built
on the Clyde by Iithgows Ltd.. and
the other on the Northeast Coast of
Scotland. The ships will have a
speed of 12} knots, and will cater for
general West Indian unrefrigerated
cargo.
MAaSTRATEQRRIES OUT
THREAT m "STOP" SIGNS
17 Are Fmed!/-for Hik
Offence Saturday in Court
The Wor. H. Martin Godet put his
warning to cyclists into effect on
Saturday morning in HamUton
PoUce Court when he fined 17 people 5/- each for riding through
"stop" signs in the municipal area.
A total of 19 persons were charged
with this offence, but two cases were
dismissed after the hearing of the
evidence.
In the two dismissed cases Mesdames Louise Spence and Helen
The Board of Agriculture has
approved a suggestion by the Bermuda Beekeepers' Association that
bees entering the Colony should be
accompanied by a certificate stating that they are free from disease
Correspondence to this effect was
read at a gathering of the Association yesterday afternoon when Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Perinchief were
hosts to the members for the May
meeting.
FoUowing the brief business session, Mr. Perinchief conducted a
tour of his bee colony with a demonstration of his many home-made
items of equipment for use around
his bee-hives and home. He is president of the Association.
HOME-MADE EQUIPMENT
in his basement Mr. Perinchief displayed an elaborate and neat array
of equipment including a Jig-saw
and many tools where he made aU
his own hives, supers, delicate
frames for the interior of the hives
and other material for use in his
own home. His bee smoker is a
combination of a metal flower vase,
a beer can top and small bellows
aU made by himself.
He made his own honey extractor
from a combination of the mechanism of an ice-cream freezer, a hot
water tank and an electric motor.
He has a built-in window in his hives
so that he may look in at odd times
without disturbing the bees. He
also has a novel arrangement on
the hive for the accommodation of
his bees which allows them to secure
a supply of drinking water without
leaving the hive, thus saving their
valuable time, as well as wear and
tear on their wings.
His inventive bent extends to
household conveniences and labour
saving devices. One of many instances of this is his lawn mower.
Over the blades he has attached an
I electric motor and with reels of
electric wire cable, he is able to cut
his grass with a minimum of effort
in giving guidance to the mower.
One of his guests suggested that
he instaU radio control and eliminate all effort.
Among the members present at
the meeting were: Charles WiUiams.
Charles Jones, Mrs. Harry Richardson, A. Lonsdale, Henry Masters,
Aubrey Manuel, Major J. S. Bartrum'
J. B. Ferguson, and four new members, Capt. and Mrs. Ross Winter,
Herman Walker and Herbert Outer-
bridge.
INSPECT BEE COLONY
stopped, but did not dismount, and
the Magistrate said that the law pertaining to "stop" signs did not require a complete dismounting on
toe* part in building up the West I the part of the cyclists.
African Forces. In December, 1941 Constable M. M. Marsh told the
he was promoted Lieutenant, and court that Mrs. Spence definitely
in 1912 he was sent north to Gambia
SeUey pleaded not guUty to the of
fence. Both maintained that they I comb in readiness for the deposit
Mr. Charles WiUiams took charge
of the meeting for the inspection of
Mr. Perinchief's bee colony. The
hive he selected to open consisted
of a brooder chamber and two
supers. Mr. WiUiams worked over the
hive without face net or gloves,
wearing an open-necked shirt and
roUed sleeves. He slowly and methodically took the hive'apart, super
by super, removed honey and brood
bearing frames, and explained the
various workings of the hive. The
bees continued their work, apparently paying Uttle attention to him.
Mr. WUUams in his 'demonstration
explained the Ufe of a bee. Immediately upon being hatched, he said,
the first joJ> tot the new bee is to
clean up his Uttle ceH in readiness
for more eggs to be laid by the
queen bee. For the foUowing 10
days or two weeks, the young bees
must take care of the queen bee.
The next job wbich occupies the
junior members of the hive is the
forming and buUding up of the
ing of honey by the workers. The
bees are then ready to be sent out
into the fields to gather honey.
Their Ufe at this job endures for
about six weeks, Mr. Williams said.
It is not that their constitution is
unable to stand more but their
out and they drop
Later he returned to duty with the
General Transport Company of the
West African Army Service Corps, in I gr0und, the constable averred
did not stop at the sign on the cor- ™«s S*™ out and tney drop i
ner of Front and Court Streets-she | eartk on one of **»"[ >
did not even place her foot on the
sea and air branches. hjs mechanised transport duties
Mr. Forrestal and aU the other Delng completed, Captain BeU was
Navy leaders have continued to at- transferred from %%»*%\A..S.C. to the
reflect Japanese influence, but I saw single new department with land, reasons
no Japanese instructoas. There is -
stfll no signs of a resumption of
constitutional talks witjl the Dutch
but Indonesian leaders remain
supremely confident,that .their minimum demands wfll be achieved.
This confidence is apparently
based on a belief In their own
strength rather than hope that the
next Dutch offer wiU satisfy their aspirations. Many Indonesians beUeve
that the Dutch, with about 20,000
troops in Java and a smaller number in Sumatra, cannot resist their
demand for Independence of the two
islands without the aid oi British
forces—and these an being steadily
evacuated.
• Mi
Sierra Leone. Whilst there -Lieutenant BeU served as officer fn charge
of motor workshops, 144 Platoon.
He later served as Commander of
the General Transport Company of
the WAA S.C. just outside of Lagos,
in Nigeria- When the West African
Force was fully trained and organiz- ^aM,"^ |
ed it was despatched to Burma, but ^ ww ^
Captain Bell *— as he was then —
was sent to England for medical
I unable to return to their hives.
BUSINESS SESSION
tack the plan during the recent
hearings of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee. Congressional
Navy leaders told Mr. Forrestal: "We
beUeve the bill (merger) accentuates
the differences between our services.
Its enactment would sot heal the
breach which now exists. Instead,
it would widen the breach since
Naval officers are firmly convinced
as a result of tbeir recent war experiences, that Naval aviation and
amphibious operations played a
great part in winning the war.
They are also convinced that ln the
CMliaaedl ra Page U
Royal Army Pay Corps at his own
request. During most of 1945, and
up until his demobilisation, he was
employed as a paymaster in the
Bournemouth Pay Office, where he
handled the financial side of demobilization.
Whilst in Bournemuoth, he married Miss Joan Beatrice Sully, who
has accompanied him to Bermuda.
Both Captain and Mrs. BeU have experienced the bombings of Bournemouth and London, and they have
vivid memories of the Nazi flying
bomb.
Cratiaw-i ra Page 3
The accused gave evidence under
oath and said that she always
obeyed the signs, and on this particular occasion she had seen "the
policeman and "I stressed my stopping even more than usual." "Mrs.
Spence told the court that the con-
asked her name, which
and then he inquired
after her age, but "I told him that,
that had no bearing on the case,"
to.which the Magistrate remarked:
"Quite rightly."
Inspector J. M. Brown, prosecuting
for the police, said that if the Magistrate beUeved the constable's evidence he had no alternative other
than convicting the accused, but
Mr. Godet said there was some doubt
and he was going to give the accused
the benefit of that doubt.
In the second dismissed case, the
accused, Mrs. SeUey, offered to show
the court the manner in which she
brought her bike to a halt without
touching the ground, but Mr. Godet
said that that would not be necessary. Mrs. SeUey claimed that she
remained motionless on her cycle for
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Mr. Ferguson during the business
session of the meeting read a reply
to a letter he had written the Department of Agriculture last year
with regard to importation of bees.
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BERMUDA CONTINGENT LANDS
IN UX FOR VICTORY PARADE
LONDON, May 19 (JP).—The Queen
Mary arrived here today with contingents of service personnel from
Mexico and Bermuda to take part
in London's victory celebration on
June 8.
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No "Royal Gazette"
On Friday
This Friday, being Empire Day,
there will be no edition of The
Royal Oazette. Advertisers are re-
mined that all copy for Saturday's
edition must be in our hands by
Thursday morning.
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